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Yanar Mohammed

(1960–2026) Journalist

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Yanar Mohammed was a journalist.

Quick Facts About Yanar Mohammed

Born: January 1, 1960
Died: March 2, 2026
Profession: Journalist

About Yanar Mohammed

[Wikidata] Iraqi feminist and women's rights activist (1960–2026)... | [Wikipedia] Yanar Mohammed was an Iraqi feminist and women's rights activist. She was a co-founder and the director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), and served as the editor of the newspaper Al-Mousawat (Equality). Mohammed started the first shelters for women in Iraq in 2003, protecting t

Quotes by Yanar Mohammed

In the very first part of the constitution there is the article that refuses any law or any article in discrepancy with…

Constitution

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We have had many wars with other countries and when a prisoner comes back they get many benefits, they get a house,…

Benefits

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The constitution has put women in a position where no one will protect them from religious cliques. If a woman is the…

Abuse

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The US empowered the Shi'a Islamic political groups and marginalised a big part of Iraq who were recognised as Sunni people. It…

Bigs

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OWFI was founded by a few Iraqi women who decided to have a voice. We were sure the future government would not…

Policy

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Before 2003, none of us knew which part of the country was Sunni and which part was Shi'a. This was something new…

Country

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The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the…

Courses

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I would like to see a law legalising women's shelters in Iraq. I would like to see our radio being opened again…

Body

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What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to…

Cities

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When you torture a person for long periods you might get a very passionate human rights defender but most probably you will…

Beast

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In Iraq, we did have dictators, we did have times of war but it never reached the point where one person, or…

Attacking

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In the beginning, in 2003, there was the Iraqi resistance, which didn't want the US occupation, then they developed Al Qaeda, but…

Al qaeda

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When I was a student, I was dressed like a modern girl and I wore long shorts. That is part of the…

Age

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Polygamy was not a problem in the '80s. I do not remember one single woman in Baghdad who was the second or…

Common

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Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.

Brothels

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I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their…

Government

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The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the…

Government

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